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Sub-National Governance Programme -II (SNG-II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SNG-II supports improved public financial management to enhance basic service delivery for the poorest and most vulnerable populations, including women, girls, and persons with disabilities. It also aims to strengthen citizen perceptions of government performance. The programme operates across four thematic areas: Planning and Reform Budgeting and Transparency Fiscal Space Innovations Implementation spans the federal level and the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Sindh.
Exiting Poverty in Rwanda
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Exiting Poverty in Rwanda Programme will provide support to the Government of Rwanda to help create and scale up a more sustainable, self-financed and inclusive system for supporting the most vulnerable, helping the poor manage shocks and enabling more people to sustainably exit poverty. The programme will provide financial aid to the Government of Rwanda to scale up provision of Social Protection to the poorest. It will put a stronger emphasis on sustainability and on working towards a clear exit strategy from the Social Protection Sector in the future. The focus of the programme therefore is strengthening government systems to build effectiveness, government ownership and long-term sustainability of the programme. This phase of support is expected to deliver the impact of extreme poverty eradicated, and poverty levels reduced, with an outcome of the resilience of vulnerable men, women and children and of the Social Protection systems that help sustain them enhanced.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Sudan Humanitarian Preparedness and Response (SHPR)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Sudan’s Humanitarian Preparedness and Response will contribute to reducing excess mortality and morbidity resulting from conflict, climate related hazards, disease outbreaks and economic shocks by: 1. Providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people facing ongoing crisis, with a focus on protection services, cash transfers and community management of acute malnutrition. 2. Preparing for and responding to sudden crises and spikes in need through country-based contingency funds. A flexible internal crisis risk facility will strengthen UK preparedness to respond to major disasters in Sudan. 3. Strengthening the effectiveness of in-country humanitarian preparedness and response. A flexible Enabling Facility will provide third-party services and technical assistance to improve gathering and analysis of data on risks and needs and early warning systems, monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and a shift to locally led interventions.
Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
BRAVE aims to improve community resilience to climate change and the capacity of key government institutions responsible for delivering climate resilience, including systems for adaptive and shock responsive social protection.
Eastern Neighbourhood Small Projects Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will provide the mechanism for embassies to develop small projects to further the aims of the Country Business Plans and develop learning to support wider programming initiatives, with the overall aims of supporting development in the region. This is part of the FCDO’s official development assistance and falls under the OECD DAC ODA rules.
UK Humanitarian Support in Palestine.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The “Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)” programme aims to improve the resilience of households to mitigate the consequences of the protracted protection crisis in the OPTs; save lives during emergency spikes, for example a flare up in violence; and prevent a further deterioration in the humanitarian situation until a more durable political solution is reached.
Better Assistance in Crises (Social Protection)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will help poor and vulnerable people to cope better with crises and meet their basic needs through more effective social assistance in contexts of recurrent shocks, protracted conflict and forced displacement. It will address the bottlenecks at global and country level that prevent greater use of social protection approaches in crises, through expert advisory services for country support, capacity building, learning, coordination and high-level policy influencing, and high quality research that strengthens the evidence on what works in different contexts.
Gender-Responsive Social Protection
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enhance outcomes for women and girls from social protection systems, DFID will generate high quality research and evidence on what interventions are most effective, and provide advisory services and resources to DFID and partners such as the World Bank and UNICEF. This will allow them to design, implement and monitor and evaluate social protection systems that deliver improved results for women and girls. This will reduce poverty, improve access to education and health, reduce violence against women and girls, and improve economic opportunities for the poorest and most marginalised women and girls, contributing to SDG 1 (end poverty) and 5 (gender equality). The programme will work in both stable and fragile contexts, and will have a particular focus on strengthening outcomes for women and girls with disabilities.
Strengthening Global Architecture for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SEAH is an abuse of the power imbalances which exist in the delivery of humanitarian, development and peace work. Failing to safeguard against SEAH will increase the likelihood that people are harmed, undermine the integrity and effectiveness of all ODA, and damage trust in FCDO and our partners. FCDO aims to improve efforts to protect against SEAH at global, local and victim-survivor level. This programme covers our global work and will provide targeted resources over five years to: 1) Scale up, pilot and implement PSEAH global tools, cross sector initiatives and approaches; 2) Support PSEAH coordination and multistakeholder dialogue to address common challenges and to improve collective action; 3) Seek the PSEAH tools and ‘global public goods’ of the future through research and pilots to address critical gaps in evidence on what works to prevent and respond to SEAH in different contexts.
Ukraine Economic Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
HM Government will guarantee a further $3bn in World Bank lending to the Government of Ukraine over 2024-27. This will support the financing of the Government of Ukraine's budget, by increasing the amount that the World Bank can lend to Ukraine. The support represents the UK's contribution to a wider financing commitment from international donors which helped unlock Ukraine's IMF programme in March 2023, effective for four years. The package marks a shift from ad-hoc unpredictable funding to structured multi-year assistance, tied to the broader objectives of creating the conditions to win the peace through recovery, reform and growth.
Future-fit Food Policy Fund (FFPF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Future-fit Food Policy Fund (FFPF) enables GFAL to support strategic, time-bound international action to tackle hunger and extreme poverty and support analytical work that will inform future central programming priorities. A key channel is the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty (GAHP) to be launched by Brazil at the G20 in November 2024.
ONE Caribbean Fund Facility
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
to promote sustainable development in the Caribbean by identifying and delivering ambitious initiatives across four areas: (a) climate adaptation, disaster risk management and resilience; (b) citizen security; (c) private sector engagement; and (d) food security. The programme will achieve this through supporting, influencing and leveraging the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) recently launched ‘ONE Caribbean’ regional strategic framework. ONE Caribbean will be directly implemented in the IDB borrowing member countries in the region (Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago) as well as indirectly implemented in six Eastern Caribbean countries through an agreement in place between IDB and the Caribbean Development Bank (a successful example of collaboration between MDBs).
Social Protection for Inclusion, Resilience, Innovation and Transformation
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Laying the foundations for reform of more inclusive social systems in Ukraine via: • Building capacity and capabilities (technical, financial and institutional) needed to catalyse and enable reform of social protection system and services; • Improving coordination between key government and non-governmental stakeholders to unlock investment and foster greater alignment; and • Modelling innovation through development and piloting of inclusive, evidence-based contextualised solutions that inform the transformation of Ukraine’s social systems.
Investing in Human Capital through Partnerships Beyond Aid in the Social Sectors Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve governance and accountability in education, health and social protection sectors and contribute to policy and research which will inform interventions to improve equity and reduce poverty.
South Sudan Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme (SSHARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Programme will save lives and alleviate poverty through providing live saving humanitarian assistance, strengthen protection and promote access to basic services to conflict affected population, rebuild resilience and protect the most vulnerable people particularly women, girls and people living with disability.
Enhancing Gender Outcomes through Social Services Systems Strengthening (Samartha)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will focus on improving the systems and capacity of local government to deliver its social service mandates with a specific focus on improving access to quality health and education services, especially by women, girls and excluded groups. This will be complemented with national policy support in the Health and Education sectors to ensure sector policies and resource allocations align to support Nepal in building responsive and resilient Health and Education systems.
Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) programme is a significant investment by the UK to support Nepal’s climate change adaptation and disaster risk management efforts. The programme is aligned with UK’s International Development Strategy and various international climate commitments. It aims to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in Nepal by strengthening government systems, mobilising climate finance, and enhancing social protection mechanisms.
Strengthening Societal and Economic Resilience in Jordan (SSERJ)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will expand contributory social insurance schemes which will allow more informal jobs to be formalised. It will also support an expansion of tax-financed social assistance schemes, seeking greater coherence between national systems and those supporting refugees to improve efficiency. Frontloaded financial support will demonstrate proof of concept which, alongside technical support, is appropriate assistance to a Low Middle Income Country. A comprehensive sustainability strategy and exit plan for UK support will be developed during the inception period and monitored throughout implementation of this programme.
Responding to the needs of Women and Children in Yemen 301140
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will address the devastating impact the conflict in Yemen is having on women and children, particularly the most marginalised. It will provide access to life-saving integrated health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and protection services. This approach responds directly to two key UK humanitarian aims in Yemen: preventing famine and ensuring respect for International Humanitarian Law.
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